Feminism Feminist Theory category: 1647 books
The Scandal of the State
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central...
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical...
by Juliet Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Woman’s Estate is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time. Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with...
by Olympe de Gouges, Christine Escallier, Elisa Seixas
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Em cada ano, desde 10 de Dezembro de 1948, o mundo celebra a adopção da Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem pela Assembleia-geral das Nações Unidas. Este dia capital convoca e recorda que todos os seres humanos são iguais por direito. Esta publicação acontece no âmbito de uma certa efervescência...
Straight Sex
Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within...
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The critique made is that popular shows on television are reactionary products of a culture that treats women as sex objects. The episodes of Star Trek critiqued in the journal are about how the feminist movement coincided with the sexist illustration of women in the television. Watching these Star...
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
Feminist Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book contributes to the growing literature on men and masculinities, but does so through a methodological lens. It addresses methodological approaches and challenges for feminist and pro-feminist studies of men and masculinities.
Angels on Earth
Mothering, Religion, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This collection brings together scholarly and creative pieces that reveal how the intellectual, emotional, and physical work of mothering is informed by women’s religiosities and spiritualities. Its contributors examine contemporary and historical perspectives on religious and spiritual mothering...
Women and Nature?
Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.
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Gendered Tropes in War Photography
Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular, regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the oppressed. Featured on the front...
Why History Matters
Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1998
"All human beings are practicing historians," writes Gerda Lerner. "We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing." It is as important as breathing, too. History shapes our self-definition and our relationship to community; it locates us in time and place and helps to give...
Femicide, Gender and Violence
Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part...
by Paul Lafargue
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2018
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Paul Lafargue est un homme politique français socialiste également essayiste et écrivain. Parmi ses nombreuses productions littéraires, citons les plus connues : Le Droit à la Paresse...